12 Dead near Alexandria

Joseph Lee

TITLE: Egypt boat capsize 12 migrants die off Alexandria 

SOURCE: BBC News

AUTHOR: N/A

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24496737

Friday morning a boat sank with forty Syrians four Egyptians and seventy-two Palestinians on it. At least twelve have been confirmed dead from drowning and one hundred sixteen survived. The boat capsized near the Egyptian port neat Alexandria.
The people on the boat were refugees who paid large sums of money to risk their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea.